In recent years, emerging technologies have been attracting increasing attention worldwide, due to the emergence and development of these emerging technologies may have a profound influence on the global industrial and economic structure. How to identify and grasp the opportunity to develop emerging technologies is an important issue for companies and governments, and how to strategize and plan...

Industrial policy based on Smart Specialisation emphasizes the exploitation of industrial linkages technological rather than intermediate product linkages. This paper develops microlevel analysis using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) patent citation database intensity technical relatedness depending cited citing fields. The results are used to estimate patterns i...

The insight that firms may make “strategic investments” to alter future competitive conditions is one of the most fundamental ideas in industrial organization. Jean Tirole’s (1988) chapter reviewing arguments about how excess capacity, capital structure, advertising, contractual practices, learning-by-doing, and other actions can be used to deter entry is easily the longest in the text. Strateg...

Patenting and Industrial Performance: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry by Manfred Fleischer Using the case of an important capital goods industry the paper examines the impact of the national patent system on the performance of firms. Many theories attempt to explain the firms’ innovative behavior using the concepts of national and sectorial systems of innovation. The patent law plays a pa...

(1) European patents shall be granted for any inventions, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. (2) The following in particular shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1: (a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods; (b) aesthetic creations; (c) schemes, rules...

The patent laws confer exclusive rights in inventions and discoveries in furtherance of a constitutional purpose "To Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."' Yet the idea that exclusive rights in new knowledge will promote scientific progress is counterintuitive to many observers of research science, who believe that science advances most rapidly when the community enjoys free access ...

The objective of this paper is to examine the structure of technology spillover from UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) technology on other industries by analyzing patents. The network analysis of the USPTO (United Stated Patents and Trademark Office) patent data from 1981 to 2000 was adopted to investigate the characteristic change of the technology spillover. The results show that the influence of UA...

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a “medical anti-commons” has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that shed light on this issue are mainly from developed countries, making it very difficult to predict the i...